Authors Against Book Bans
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We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
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One more bump of this! We'd don't have to settle for a bill that does pretty good work. We can push for gold-standard protections.
URGENT Call to Action: The Senate version of the S.2696 is moving out of committee BUT this version does not include any protections for book creators and only contains weak first amendment protections. The timing is tight: please email your senator before Wednesday, Nov. 12! More info:
URGENT Call to Action - Email Your Senators! — Mass Freedom To Read
Mass Freedom To Read learned late on Thursday that An Act Regarding Free Expression (renamed S. 2696) has moved out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and will be going to a floor vote next Thursd...
www.massfreedomtoread.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One more bump of this! We'd don't have to settle for a bill that does pretty good work. We can push for gold-standard protections.
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URGENT Call to Action: The Senate version of the S.2696 is moving out of committee BUT this version does not include any protections for book creators and only contains weak first amendment protections. The timing is tight: please email your senator before Wednesday, Nov. 12! More info:
URGENT Call to Action - Email Your Senators! — Mass Freedom To Read
Mass Freedom To Read learned late on Thursday that An Act Regarding Free Expression (renamed S. 2696) has moved out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and will be going to a floor vote next Thursd...
www.massfreedomtoread.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
URGENT Call to Action: The Senate version of the S.2696 is moving out of committee BUT this version does not include any protections for book creators and only contains weak first amendment protections. The timing is tight: please email your senator before Wednesday, Nov. 12! More info:
Massachusetts! Take a few minutes this weekend to make sure your right to read legislation is as strong as possible.
URGENT Call to Action: The Senate version of the S.2696 is moving out of committee BUT this version does not include any protections for book creators and only contains weak first amendment protections. The timing is tight: please email your senator before Wednesday, Nov. 12! More info:
URGENT Call to Action - Email Your Senators! — Mass Freedom To Read
Mass Freedom To Read learned late on Thursday that An Act Regarding Free Expression (renamed S. 2696) has moved out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and will be going to a floor vote next Thursd...
www.massfreedomtoread.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Massachusetts! Take a few minutes this weekend to make sure your right to read legislation is as strong as possible.
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Fantastic article in Psychology Today on how cult language drives book bans: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/free... by Steven Hassan @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com
Featured in this week's Authors Against Book Bans newsletter. Authors, if you haven't already joined check out @authorsabb.bsky.social
Featured in this week's Authors Against Book Bans newsletter. Authors, if you haven't already joined check out @authorsabb.bsky.social
How Book Bans Control Information and Why They Backfire
The latest moral panic centers on whether your child learns about racism and sexuality in the classroom. Who really benefits?
www.psychologytoday.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Fantastic article in Psychology Today on how cult language drives book bans: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/free... by Steven Hassan @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com
Featured in this week's Authors Against Book Bans newsletter. Authors, if you haven't already joined check out @authorsabb.bsky.social
Featured in this week's Authors Against Book Bans newsletter. Authors, if you haven't already joined check out @authorsabb.bsky.social
Were you thrilled & motivated by election results on Tuesday and want in on the next one? If you're a published writer, join us! We provide resources, connect each other to collective actions, and support each other!
AABB Author Sign-Up Form
Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Were you thrilled & motivated by election results on Tuesday and want in on the next one? If you're a published writer, join us! We provide resources, connect each other to collective actions, and support each other!
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I’ll be out there with @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @authorsabb.bsky.social raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!
This weekend, the Texas Book Festival, which will gather some 250 authors in a bibliophilic tent city out front of the state Capitol, ironically the launching pad of myriad political attacks on supposedly intolerable tomes and sinful librarians.
Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder
At the 2025 Texas Book Festival, authors bring new insights to complex stories in nonfiction.
www.texasobserver.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’ll be out there with @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @authorsabb.bsky.social raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!
Read this post on the Young Adult Library Services blog for a just about perfect articulation of what libraries can create safe spaces and how book bans threaten them
The Check Please Moment: Why Censorship is a Threat to Safe Spaces
We fight censorship not just for intellectual freedom, but for the young person who spends their fall break quietly finding themselves on our shelves.
www.yalsa.ala.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Read this post on the Young Adult Library Services blog for a just about perfect articulation of what libraries can create safe spaces and how book bans threaten them
A thread of more wins from yesterday all in Texas! (Though we'll also be waiting for Frank's full write up)
Early results for Texas school board elections are starting to come in! Good start in Granbury ISD, where Christian Nationalist extremist Monica Brown is down 56-44! The rest of her slate is down early, too. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A thread of more wins from yesterday all in Texas! (Though we'll also be waiting for Frank's full write up)
The freedom to read picked up a lot of wins last night! So did support for local libraries! Thank you to everyone who worked on these races. When we pull together we win!
Pine-Richland Schools (PA), which have dealt with nonstop book and curriculum censorship, just saw its board flip over to progressive representation.
People
Don't
Want
Bigots
Overseeing
Education.
community.triblive.com/news/3913768
People
Don't
Want
Bigots
Overseeing
Education.
community.triblive.com/news/3913768
Challenger slate 'Together for PR' sweeps election for Pine-Richland School Board
community.triblive.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The freedom to read picked up a lot of wins last night! So did support for local libraries! Thank you to everyone who worked on these races. When we pull together we win!
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I’ll be there!
Join the Interfaith Alliance & Unite Against Book Bans to learn why book bans threaten religious freedom and how faith communities and library workers can come together to advocate for the right to read. Nov 5 at 5PM RSPV is free but required! support.interfaithalliance.org/a/how-faith-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’ll be there!
Join the Interfaith Alliance & Unite Against Book Bans to learn why book bans threaten religious freedom and how faith communities and library workers can come together to advocate for the right to read. Nov 5 at 5PM RSPV is free but required! support.interfaithalliance.org/a/how-faith-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Join the Interfaith Alliance & Unite Against Book Bans to learn why book bans threaten religious freedom and how faith communities and library workers can come together to advocate for the right to read. Nov 5 at 5PM RSPV is free but required! support.interfaithalliance.org/a/how-faith-...
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This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/
Friends in the Publishing Industry! Literary Agents of Change, the Association of American Literary Agents’ DEI committee, are hosting “In Conversation” events designed to provide opportunities for growth across industry lines. The next is Nov 5. Register here:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How to Address the Challenges Facing our Industry: Publishing Professionals in Conversation about Taking Action. After registering, you will receive a confi...
A conversation moderated by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Bestselling Author and Co-Founder of Authors Against Book Bans), between Denise Neujahr (Youth Services Librarian at Spokane Public Library and recipien...
us06web.zoom.us
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Friends in the Publishing Industry! Literary Agents of Change, the Association of American Literary Agents’ DEI committee, are hosting “In Conversation” events designed to provide opportunities for growth across industry lines. The next is Nov 5. Register here:
Happy Halloween! Read some ghost stories. Give out some candy. Meet your neighbors. Watch a scary movement. Connect! Celebrate! Relax! There's plenty of space in this fight for fun!
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happy Halloween! Read some ghost stories. Give out some candy. Meet your neighbors. Watch a scary movement. Connect! Celebrate! Relax! There's plenty of space in this fight for fun!
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Local elections are happening all over Massachusetts next week, including for school boards! You know what happens when you assume, right? Do your research now to make sure you're voting for candidates that support the right to read
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Local elections are happening all over Massachusetts next week, including for school boards! You know what happens when you assume, right? Do your research now to make sure you're voting for candidates that support the right to read
Reminder that if you work in publishing, you can join @pubprosabb.bsky.social
Meet Tricia Lawrence (she/her), a member of the leadership team of Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans.
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reminder that if you work in publishing, you can join @pubprosabb.bsky.social
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Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, authors of THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED, had their elementary school author visit canceled when they arrived and students were waiting for them.
Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-...
Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-...
Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans.
Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.
bookriot.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, authors of THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED, had their elementary school author visit canceled when they arrived and students were waiting for them.
Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-...
Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-...
Have you adopted your upcoming election yet? If it's got a Right to Read element let us know so we can amplify!
Hello ##BookSky Your assignment this week! Adopt an upcoming election! That could mean, volunteering for your preferred candidate, making candidate score cards for a race, or making a donation. Focus is important to effective activism & preventing burnout! Reply with your adoption so we can amplify!
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Have you adopted your upcoming election yet? If it's got a Right to Read element let us know so we can amplify!
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Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey
Soft Censorship of Diverse Books
WNDB is collecting information on the soft censorship of diverse books across the US. Have you witnessed soft censorship in your community? Please share your experiences below. Your response can be…
docs.google.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey
Soft Censorship of Diverse Books
WNDB is collecting information on the soft censorship of diverse books across the US. Have you witnessed soft censorship in your community? Please share your experiences below. Your response can be…
docs.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey
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A good way to do that is through this org; sisterdistrict.com
Building Progressive Power in the States | Sister District
Sister District is a grassroots organization that leverages experience, research, and volunteerism to get Democrats elected in state legislatures! Learn about our work & how you can support it!
sisterdistrict.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A good way to do that is through this org; sisterdistrict.com
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Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:
Hello ##BookSky Your assignment this week! Adopt an upcoming election! That could mean, volunteering for your preferred candidate, making candidate score cards for a race, or making a donation. Focus is important to effective activism & preventing burnout! Reply with your adoption so we can amplify!
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hello ##BookSky Your assignment this week! Adopt an upcoming election! That could mean, volunteering for your preferred candidate, making candidate score cards for a race, or making a donation. Focus is important to effective activism & preventing burnout! Reply with your adoption so we can amplify!
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I need to use the sidebar on my blog wisely, and start promoting other positive initiatives across the web in my newsletter.
So I'm sharing this link to the latest @authorsabb.bsky.social email to invite anyone to link their proactive, positive initiatives in my replies
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So I'm sharing this link to the latest @authorsabb.bsky.social email to invite anyone to link their proactive, positive initiatives in my replies
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October 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I need to use the sidebar on my blog wisely, and start promoting other positive initiatives across the web in my newsletter.
So I'm sharing this link to the latest @authorsabb.bsky.social email to invite anyone to link their proactive, positive initiatives in my replies
mailchi.mp/b1df22db70ad...
So I'm sharing this link to the latest @authorsabb.bsky.social email to invite anyone to link their proactive, positive initiatives in my replies
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Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social
Battling book bans in Beantown and beyond - The Tufts Daily
I consider myself to be generally aware of the state of book banning in the United States. I read about the fights going on in school districts and libraries throughout Florida, Tennessee and Texas. I...
www.tuftsdaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social